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Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.
David Hockney
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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
Collagist
Draftsperson
Drawer
Graphic Artist
Illustrator
Lithographer
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Photographer
Printmaker
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Bradford
Yorkshire
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I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.
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OH, I LIKE smoking, I do. I smoke for my health, my mental health. Tobacco gives you little pauses, a rest from life. I don't suppose anyone smoking a pipe would have road rage, would they?
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Anything simple always interests me.
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In my old age, I'll be in L.A.
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I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.
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If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize just look... and paint what you see until the canvas ends.
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But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.
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You must plan to be spontaneous.
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Water in swimming pools changes its look more than in any other form its colour can be man-made and its dancing rhythms reflect not only the sky but, because of its transparency, the depth of the water as well. If the water surface is almost still and there is a strong sun, then dancing lines with the colours of the spectrum appear everywhere.
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There's no need to believe what an artist says. Believe what he does that's what counts.
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Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.
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I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, I never saw that - but that's what artists do.
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Faces are the most interesting things we see other people fascinate me, and the most interesting aspect of other people - the point where we go inside them - is the face. It tells all.
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